... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

... absolute photometry . absolute spectrophotometry . grism . ACCUM mode . ... absolute . ... bias . bias reset level . ... bias correction . bias derived temperature . ... BRIGHTOBJ mode . ... calibrated science file . calibration 1 , 2 . re-calibrating, when to . ... calnica task . ... Data Quality Array . ... examine NICMOS header . ... Janskys, NICMOS data . ... grism, absolute spectrophotometry . ... recalibrating data . ... NICMOS calibration . ... calibration, grism . ...

The angular power spectrum of the anisotropy of the CMB contains information about the formation of the Universe and its current contents. ... The image above shows an all-sky map with only ell=2 power on the left, and another map with only ell=16 power on the right. ... The current status of microwave background anisotropy measurements in my compilation from the literature has 95 data points from 25 experiments. These are all plotted in the figure below: . ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Temperature Work in groups of 2-4. ... Due 1999 April 15 In this laboratory exercise, you will use the radio telescope on the roof of Science B to measure the intensity of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). ... The output of the telescope when pointing at the sky will then be 2 Tsys = Trec + Tsky : The temperature of the sky can in principle arise from two sources, radiation from the atmosphere and radiation from outer space (the CMBR). ...

... Initial Setup Tasks . ... IFP#1-LO 6300 - 6316 MHz USB LCP . ... IFP#1-HI 6316 - 6332 MHz USB LCP . ... IFP#2-LO 6642 - 6658 MHz USB LCP . ... Ftp: ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/people/vlbi/v255/v255d . ... 13:00:00 - 13:20:00 UT : Observing 3c273 with the v255d.5cm setup (dual polarization 4 x 16 MHz bandpass setup). ... The 4 x 16 MHz bandpass setup will require feeding two separate LOs into IFP#1 and #2 on the DAS/frequency translator and splitting the LCP signal so that is feed into both sides. ...

... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Foreground emission and Cosmic Microwave background intrinsic anisotropies . ... Since its discovery the Cosmic Microwave Radiation (CMB) has been one of the pillars of modern Cosmology. ... Further development of this work is the application of already tested algorithms to disentangle the foreground emission from the CMB maps and the determination of the CMB intrinsic emission. ... Return to list of thesis topics ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... Meta Index / Home Page / Miscellaneous Algorithms Omdetect has a simple extended-source validation function to recognise scattered-light features and ignore them. The algorithm works by assuming a scattered-light feature consists of a number of connected pixels with values significantly above the background interspersed with pixels not significantly above the background and arranged in a random fashion throughout the source region. ...

... The NATO "Science for Peace" Program , Project number SfP 973559 . ... Receiver devices based on superconducting Josephson junction dynamics provide easy and extremely sensitive way for measurements of contents of these molecules. ... Fast development of SQUIDs resulted in fabrication of number of devices for supersensitive physical experiments and production of sophisticated multichannel measurement systems used in medicine for magnetocardiography and neural investigations. ...

... EXPERIMENT COLD: . THE FIRST DEEP SKY SURVEY WITH . THE RATAN-600 RADIO TELESCOPE . ... 2 The RATAN-600 Radio Telescope . ... 2.2 Brief Description of the RATAN-600 Radio Telescope . ... Elimination of Discrete Sources . ... Sky Surveys Using the RATAN-600 . ... 5 Astrophysical Problems Studied in Experiment Cold . ... Point Sources, i.e., on Scales Comparable to the Beam of the Radio Telescope . ... Strong" Radio Sources . ... Experiment Cold and the "New-Generation" Radio A stronomy . ...

... There is an additional zenith photometer channel for measurement of emissions formed heights more than 500 km to take into account the processes connected with solar activity and high layers of ionosphere. ... Photometer BP-1 . ... Photometers: BP-1 - to zenith, BP-2 - to nadir. Spectrometer: Limb channel at angle 18 deg to satellite velocity vector in the plane «velocity vector-nadir», scanning takes place within +5 - -30 deg to optic axis in the plane «velocity vector-nadir»; . ...

Next: The STScI NICMOS Calibration Up: No Title Previous: CONICA: The high resolution . The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline . Introduction . ... Dark Current Subtraction . ... Input Data . ... Scalar Background Subtraction . 2-D Background Subtraction . ... Status and Goals of the NICMOS Calibration Plan . ... Photometry . ... Photometric Performance of NICMOS . ... NICMOS Photometry. ... ST-ECF Grism Spectrum Software for NICMOS Grism Data . ... Analysis . ... STScI NICMOS Software . ...

... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... Gravitational Radiation . Neutrino . Cosmic Rays . ... InfraRed Astronomical Satellite . ... Gravitational MicroLensing Experiments . ... EROS Experiment (France) . ... Astro D (Feb 1993 -- Now) . ... Dec 1989 -- Now) . ... Astro B (Feb 1983 -- Dec 1984) . ... Pioneer Venus Orbiter (Catalog) . ... Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope and 2nd EGRET Catalog ( FTP ) . ... LSU Gravitational Wave Experiment . ... Japanise Neutrino Experiment . Very High Energy Neutrino Experiments . ...

... Ultraviolet photons have short wavelength and high energy and thus come from sources which have fairly high temperatures. ... Star formation regions in nearby galaxies . Star formation regions in our own galaxy . ... In addition, the background glow of the night sky is at a minimum level at around 2000 angstroms. ... It is hoped that these very diffuse galaxies can be more easily imaged at a wavelength where the noise from a background of finite brightness is at its minimum. ...

Cosmic Polarization Rotation in view of the recent CMB experiments PoS(MULTIF15)009 Sperello di Serego Alighieri INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy E-mail: sperello@arcetri.astro.it The possibility that there is some Cosmic Polarization Rotation ( CPR ), i.e. that the polarization ... RG radio pol. ... In these cases the polarization direction is very similar in the 8 Cosmic Polarization Rotation Sperello di Serego Alighieri optical and in the radio. ...

... Archive for the ?Astro? Category. ... Oct 1st, 2008| 04:16 pm | Posted by hlee . ... Continue reading ?survey and design of experiments? ... Continue reading ?Classification and Clustering? ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Astro , Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Frequentist , Jargon , Methods , Stat | ... I didn?t realize this post was sitting for a month during which I almost neglected the slog. ... Tags: blackbody , EotW , Equation , Equation of the Week . ... ADS . ...

Planetary Radio Interferometry and Doppler Experiment (PRIDE) for a Europa -Jupiter mission Leonid Gurvits, Sergei Pogrebenko, Peter Fridman, Giuseppe Cimo JIVE, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands Europa Lander : Science Goals and Experiments IKI , Moscow , Russia, 10-13 February 2009 Generic PRIDE configuration Background radio sources Earth VLBI Network and Two-way tracking stations Orbiter Planet-target Micro ... 2008, SKA Memo No. ... How many targets PRIDE-JE deal with: orbiter, lander(s)? ...

The Archeops experiment aimed at measuring the cosmic background emitted just after the Big Bang. The study of this radiation is essential to obtain precise information on the evolution of the Universe: density, Hubble constant, age of the Universe.. To achieve this goal, measurements have been done with devices cooled down at 100mK temperature placed at the focus of a warm telescope. ... 28960 visitors . ...